Roscoe's Public Notes

Both these server-based standard correspondence chess games were played against the same opponent at Chess.com, two-game matches with reversed colors being traditional in cc play, and they ended today when my opponent’s flag fell in both, giving me the wins. There’s enough development in each game to make them worthy of sharing with you.

My win with Black:

After only thirteen full moves, we’d moved through an uncommonly fast and bloody opening and middlegame (most of the destruction caused by my Black Queen, heh) and were well on our way to an endgame situation. I was ahead by a Rook and confident that my forces would prevail. The final board position and our move record follow:

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 b5 4.a4 e6 5.axb5 Bb4+ 6.Nc3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Qd5 8.Qa4 Bd7 9.Bxc4 Qxg2 10.Ba3 Qxh1 11.Ke2 Ne7 12.Bxe7 Kxe7 13.Nf3 Qg2
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My win with White:

Though this second game was actually half a move more mature than that above, its development had been much more sedate and traditional. Therefore, our more conservative opening game situation had yet to advance to what I would call a middlegame phase. However, given the way I was able to play as Black in our other game, I was reasonably optimistic about my chances here. There was still a whole lot of chess to be played in this game when Black’s flag fell.

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 e5 4.d4 e4 5.Ne5 d6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.c4 d5 8.c5 Rb8 9.O-O h6 10.b4 Rxb4 11.a3 Rb8 12.h3 Be7 13.Bf4 O-O 14.Nd2
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